CAREER: From Research to Meta-Research to Practice - The Development of an Educational Learning Environment Framework for School Algebra

职业生涯：从研究到元研究到实践 - 学校代数教育学习环境框架的开发

• 批准号: 2142659
• 负责人: Sheree Sharpe
• 金额: $ 104.22万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-15 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2142659&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Research; Meta; Practice; Development

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This is also funded by the Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) which seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools.This project advances the understanding of teaching and learning of algebra in grades 6 through 12 by using a methodology that leverages the cumulative power of an analysis of many studies on a topic. This work will synthesize results aggregated from 40 years of research in the field of mathematics education and develop a unified framework to inform parents, students, teachers, other educators, and researchers. The project will promote the transformation of research into practice by summarizing data-driven practices of positive educational experiences for students learning algebra in middle and secondary grades. The framework will support a deeper practical understanding of how to teach school algebra. This new understanding formally recognizes the important independent roles of teachers, students. and parents, and how these different roles can be acted on in unison. In addition, the principal investigator will mentor post-doctoral and doctoral students and develop and implement a new course on meta-research.The project will conduct meta-research that integrates the results from quantitative meta-analysis, and qualitative meta-synthesis to inform our understanding of four constructs (i.e., parental involvement, school climate, algebra teaching approach, and student engagement) on the algebra achievements of secondary students. The synthesis methods rely on gathering information from existing research to analyze patterns and themes across algebra projects over time. The results will be used to develop an educational learning environment framework for school algebra. This work will advance understanding of in-school and out-of-school factors that influence the teaching and learning of algebra.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。这也是由发现研究预科-12项目(DRK-12)资助的，该项目旨在通过研究和开发创新的资源、模型和工具，显著提高预科-12学生和教师的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的学习和教学。该项目通过使用一种利用对同一主题的多项研究的累积分析的方法来促进对6-12年级代数教学和学习的理解。这项工作将综合40年来在数学教育领域的研究成果，并制定一个统一的框架，以告知家长、学生、教师、其他教育工作者和研究人员。该项目将通过总结数据驱动的做法，为中学和中学学习代数的学生提供积极的教育经验，促进研究转化为实践。该框架将支持对如何教授学校代数的更深层次的实践理解。这一新的理解正式承认了教师、学生的重要独立作用。和父母，以及如何协调扮演这些不同的角色。此外，首席研究员将指导博士后和博士后学生，并开发和实施一门新的元研究课程。该项目将进行元研究，整合定量元分析和定性元综合的结果，以了解我们对中学生代数成绩的四个结构(即家长参与、学校氛围、代数教学方法和学生参与)的理解。综合方法依赖于从现有研究中收集信息，以分析随着时间的推移跨代数项目的模式和主题。研究结果将被用来开发学校代数的教育学习环境框架。这项工作将促进对影响代数教学和学习的校内和校外因素的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。